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It is said that the amount of themes in a book is directly proportional to the amount of persons who read the book. The story that will accompany us in our next six-month journey is not an exception. The little prince is a book that must be read not with our everyday eyes but with the eyes of our own heart, with the eyes of the child inside ourselves, with a pair of eyes which is trained to see and read what is invisible to the common reader. Only when it is read with this kind of eyes  we will  be able to notice from among the infinite number of things and themes that this book contains that it is a book about friends, a book about universes, a book about our universe, a book about stars and planets, a book about our planet, a book about fascinating characters, a book about the fascinating character that each one of us is, a book about how we relate to those we love, a book about those we care about and how we come to care about them, a book about how things become ours, a book about how those things that we call ours can be lost, a book about wisdom, a book about books, discoveries and adventures, a book about journeys and encounters, a book about childhood and how adults behave, a book about the  learning experience, a book about growth, a book about the difference between growing up and growing old, a book about the importance of keeping alive the child we once were. It is a book that entices us to talk with its characters, to create characters who chat with the protagonists, a book that invites us to talk with ourselves when we discover there is a little prince or princess who has long been silenced within ourselves. The little prince that invites us to write poetry, to stage it or paint it. The little prince is a book that invites us to share it with those we love or care about, with those we do not love or care about, and with those we would like to love or care about. It is a journey to share with our family, a learning experience to share with our teachers or students, the best excuse to let our students teach us or to become our teacher’s teachers. For who would know more about childhood than a kid? It is a book that encourages us to imagine, to take off like a spaceship or like a boy or girl who flies away clinging to a flock of wild birds.  A book that invites us to become poets and better readers, that is readers  who can enlarge this list of everything the little prince is about, with what my blind eyes missed in its pages, not because of the blindness produced by age but by the blindness produced by adulthood, solemnity, routine and the lack of a pair of little prince’s  eyes,  a pair of eyes which i hope you  discover, preserve and develop in the coming months, this pair of eyes which is unable to perceive things that are of essence…

 

PARTS OF THE PROJECT

 

 

1.  FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE BOOK

 

2.  DEVELOPING READING SKILLS WITH THE LITTLE PRINCE

a.  theme (all levels)

b. tone (high elementary, sec & prep.)

c.  setting (all levels)

d. point of view (sec, 6 prep)

e.  characters (all levels)

f.  conflict (elementary, sec & prep.)

g.  plot, sequence of events (all groups)

·        exposition

·        conflict

·        resolution

h. symbols (high elementary, sec & prep.)

i.   allegory (sec & prep)

j.   parable (sec & prep.)

 

3.  WRITING A NEW CHAPTER FOR THE LITTLE PRINCE.

a.  Write a new micro-short story or new chapter for the little prince in which a theme of yours is developed.

       

4.  WRITING POETRY ABOUT A THEME IN THE LITTLE PRINCE.

a.  Using  the pattern of a classical contemporary composition, write a poem about a theme or concept in the little prince.

·        (Preschool) the planet of (concept)

·        (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th)  What being a child means. (related to the little prince)

·        (5th, 6th, and 1st sec) Social issues related to the little prince.

·        (2nd sec) intra and interpersonal intelligence related to the little prince.

·        (3rd sec and Prep.) Global or social issues related to the little prince.

 

5.  WRITING AN “IF I WERE A LITTLE PRINCE” COMPOSITION

a.  (Preschool) I am a little prince

b. (1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 4th elementary) What the little prince inside me told me/us

c.  (5th, 6th and 1st sec) If I were a little prince

d. (2nd sec) What the little prince told me about knowing others and knowing myself/ourselves

e.  (3rd sec and prep) If I met the little prince

f.  (6th prep) Once I/we was/were a little prince/little princess

 

6.  LEARNING WHAT AN ILLUSTRATOR DOES AND BECOMING AN ILLUSTRATOR

a.  (Preschool) painting the planet of ______________ in the style of a Saint Exupéry

b.  (Low Elementary) Painting a character from the little prince in the style of a famous illustrator.

c.  (High elementary) Painting a scene from the little prince in the style of a famous illustrator.

d. (1st sec) Painting in our hands a concept from the little prince in the style of a famous illustrator

e.  (2nd sec) Painting in our hands a concept of the little prince related to inter or intrapersonal intelligence in the style of a famous illustrator.

f.  (3rd sec) designing a character of the little prince in Elizabethan terms.

g.  (Prep.) Painting in our bodies a concept of the little prince in the style of a famous painter.

 

7.  STAGING A PERFORMANCE based on a theme, topic, or concept of the Little Prince.